Our 13 Favorite Sochi Olympics Crushes

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In the most intensely scrutinized, Internet-y Olympics ever, the female athletes of these Olympics aren't just a bunch of pretty faces: They're also expressive, GIF-able faces. And dancers. And good old-fashioned Olympic ass-kickers. With the competition coming to a close, these are our faves

Everyone on the Sochi Olympics Tinder Scene

We always hear about the epic levels of boning that go on between all those world-class athletes at the Olympic Village each Games, but this was the first year we got a glimpse into the casual dating pool, thanks to Tinder and a Tumblr generously posting photos straight from Sochi. Is it too late to start training for Rio?

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Sara Reid

The Canadian didn't medal in the skeleton, but she did have the most badass helmet of anyone, ever.

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Kim Yuna

Of all the winter sports, figure skating is the most nervous, harrowing, and instantly compelling. The difference between a clean landing and a disasterous fall, gold and nothing at all, hinge on such tiny margins of aerodynamics and angles that we office-dwelling bums can't ever hope to comprehend the tension, or the perfection, or the stakes. So we're going to go ahead and congratulate South Korea's Kim Yuna, who, in her quest to become the first woman to ever win two Olympic golds in figure skating, came up silver. Too err is to be human, and to come just shy of absolute perfection most human of all. After all, it's why they play the game, and why we keep tuning in.

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Arianna Fontana

And for the complete opposite of everything we just said, there's Italy's Arianna Fontana (far left), who won bronze in the 500-meter women's speedskate and couldn't look more thrilled. Rock on, girl.

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Tara Lipinski

A full sixteen years after capturing Olympic gold, Lipinski has been partnered with the enigmatically dressed Johnny Weir for NBC's figure skating coverage, and boy has it been fabulous. There's been attitude. There's been matching outfits. There's been sick Instagram game. We need these two in our lives more than once every four years. But there's no way we're watching figure skating on the reg, right? ...Nah.

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Ashley Wagner

From her sultry, bravado-filled performances, to her insta-meme "Bullshit" moment after a disappointing score in the women's short program, Wagner ran away with the McKayla Maroney award for the Internet's favorite Olympian, doubly so when her second reaction to a score was even more GIF-able than the first. Girl's got more flair than a Chotchkie's employee of the month.

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Julia Mancuso

The lucky underwear paid off: The alpine skier won bronze in her third Olympics, making her the most decorated American female alpine skier ever. Julia 4, Lindsay Vonn 2. Sure they're not keeping score, though.

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Jackie Chamoun

We're not opposed to a sexy photo shoot or eighty here at GQ, but Chamoun's is less notable for the shoot itself than what happened after: After a behind-the-scenes video showed more risque angles of her topless body than the tastefully obscured originals, the conservative Lebanese government denounced the whole thing, even calling for an IOC investigation just days before the game. The reaction online was predictably swift and endearingly unanimous, with many taking part in a #StripforJackie campaign, calling out Lebanon for such puritan moralizing in the face of violence and conflict at home.

Here's hoping Jackie goes on to put in a solid showing in Sochi—there'd be no hubbub, after all, if she weren't a world-class athlete, there simply to do her job.

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Erin Hamlin

They say that in luge, the real winner is whoever finishes first behind the Germans—and in that case, Erin Hamlin's the champion of the Olympics. Her bronze in singles luge was the first medal for an American, man or woman, in the event. Well deserved, since she's been training for quite a while.

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Jamie Anderson

She won gold in women's slopestyle, and might've also met a cutie or two; the American snowboarder told _Us Weekly _that the level of Tinder use in the Olympic Village is "next level," and that she had to delete her account to focus on the competition. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to go work out. Maybe get some snowboarding in?

Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze

The Swiss and Slovenian skiers raced to just a rare tie (or close enough, anyway) in the women's downhill, covering just under two miles of mountain in 1 minute and 41.57 seconds. Where did that extra gold medal come from, anyway? Easy: Sochi organizers are prepared with forty-six extras.

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